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Slain soldier's body arrives in Baton Rouge
07:16 AM CDT on Friday, June 17, 2005
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE -- Family and military members gathered on the runway at the Baton Rouge airport to meet the casket of an East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's deputy and National Guard soldier killed in Iraq.
Law enforcement officers formed a processional to escort the hearse carrying Sgt. David Joseph Murray, 23, who died June 9 when a bomb exploded under his armored personnel carrier in Baghdad. Murray was a member of B Company, 1088th Engineering Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team.
Murray was also an East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's deputy and worked part time as a sergeant for the Norwood Police Department. Norwood Assistant Police Chief Ray Chamberlian waited as the sun went down for the plane to arrive Thursday evening. He recalled a young man who was a natural at law enforcement.
"He had it," Chamberlian said. "He would have been a lieutenant when he came back."
Chamberlian was one of dozens of local law enforcement officers who gathered to form a processional of cars and motorcycles for Murray. Some, like Chamberlian, knew him. Others, like Baton Rouge Police Officer Brian Harrison, came simply out of respect.
A motorcycle officer, Harrison said news of another Louisiana soldier's death is hard to take.
"They're just kids. Just kids," he said.
After moving from Pennsylvania to Louisiana in 1997, Murray joined the National Guard while he was a junior at Silliman Institute. He attended boot camp after he graduated from high school in 2001.
He lived in the Felixville community, north of Clinton, and was a native of Philadelphia. He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Joanne Spence and John Parker; father, Gary Murray Sr. of Philadelphia; sister, Caitlin Marie Parker of Clinton; two brothers, Gary Michael Murray and Coley Patrick Parker, both of Clinton; and a grandmother, Patricia Lepera of Jeffersonville, Pa.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at the Christian Bible Fellowship Church in Clinton and from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Christian Bible Fellowship Church. Burial will be at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Prayers for his family and all of our brave soldiers.-
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Brandon has lost 14 of his friends in the 1088, on top of him being shot himself. He has three more months Miss Mary. We've been told not to send mail past July 1st, he will be moving around a lot. Leaves Baghdad September 4, back in the states in October. They've had him at Abu Graib (sp) due to his being wounded. I keep joking with him telling him when he comes home he'd better be ready to chase the baby around, and that he has a whole Disney Movie library waiting for him to watch with Brady. That is what is keeping him going.
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hurricanedude wrote:I can feel for the young man
lol - that is Brandon's "expression". He doesn't say "I understand Aunt Cindy" or "I hear you, Aunt Cindy". It's "I feel you Aunt Cindy"!! The baby concentrates on you SO hard when you talk, and there are times I look at him and I can hear his daddy say those words.
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